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Operations of the U.S. Air Force Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command
Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.
U.S. Air Force Air Weather Service making use of NASA Weather satellite data.
Observation of weather data collected from weather satellites. U.S. Air Force woman looking at photographs related to weather data. She works on an instrument. Airmen and women working to prepare a weather forecast. The weather forecast is prepared and transmitted to regional centers. Air Force weather centers located in the US, UK and Japan. Observations are sent to operating locations. Officers discussing. Men standing near an airplane. The airplane in flight overhead. High speed equipment are used for weather observation.
Preventive measures undertaken by ships and consideration of safe havens before getting underway in the Pacific Ocean.
A documentary on the occurrence of tropical cyclones. US Navy warship underway in the Pacific Ocean. View of U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865) advancing in heavy seas, with waves crashing over deck. Next scene shows Destroyer USS Tuner (DD-834) also in heavy seas. View of LST USS Walworth County (LST-1164 at port with a tug boat pushing her away from docks toward open sea. Various U.S. Navy warships in a calm harbor. USS Frederick (LST 1184) moving out of harbor. Preventive measures taken by ship's crew require analysis of: tropical cyclone forecasted danger area, measure of the harbor, and the type of vessel involved. Safe havens should be known. Books related to typhoon safety measures on a table. Sasebo Harbor in Japan is one of the safe havens. A map locates the Sasebo harbor. Hills and mountains in the background. The harbor is well equipped with repair and service facilities. Ships anchored in the Sasebo harbor.
African American athletes make their mark at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany
Opening scene shows stadium filled with spectators for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. View from behind six sprinters ready to start the 100 meter dash. Front view closeups of African American runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. Official fires gun for the start, and the runners are off. Camera tracking the runners shows Jesse Owens well ahead of all the rest, at first, but Metcalfe soon catches up with him. Crowd roaring and cheering in the stadium. Scoreboard shows Owens first, Metcalfe, second, and Osendarp (of Holland) third, separated each by only one tenth of a second. The American National Anthem can be heard in the background. The next event is the men's high jump. Sign shows the bar initially set at 1.97 meters height. The first competitor is Gustav Weinkötz of Germany. He fails to clear the bar. Next is Hiroshi Tanaka of Japan, who also fails to clear. Bar is reset to 2.03 meters (6 feet-8 inches). African American, Cornelius Johnson makes the next attempt. He successfully clears the bar and the crowd roars its approval. (He had set a new olympic record.) Three American flags flying over the stadium as the U.S. National Anthem is again heard being played.
Wounded U.S. Marines being loaded aboard Stinson L-5B Sentinel ambulance aircraft in Okinawa , June 1945.
Air evacuation of wounded United States Marines in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. Marines unload a litter patient from an ambulance and load it aboard U.S. Army Air Forces L-5B aircraft of the 163rd Liaison Squadron. Aircraft taxis for take off. A signalman with flags with numerous Marine and Air Force L-5 aircraft in the background. Marines unload a wounded marine on a stretcher from the ambulance and load it aboard L-5B aircraft. Another litter patient being loaded aboard the L-5B aircraft. Identifiable aircraft serial numbers: 44-16995, 163rd Liaison Squadron
Children play musical instruments and spin silk at a school maintained by Belgian priests in the Philippines.
Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a school building maintained by Belgian priests. Filipino boy students of the school are seen. Exteriors of a church. School children lined up on the school grounds. The school band plays musical instruments. Silk culture being taught to the natives using techniques from Japan. The natives operate devices to spin silk and manufacture silk.
